Sentences with phrase «avian flu into»

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Viruses like avian flu or the animal coronavirus that mutated into SARS must be relatively benign in their original hosts to spread from one animal in the wild to the next.

In the case of the avian flu epidemic that broke out in December 2003 and continued into the fall of 2004, 43 of the 44 people known to have contracted the disease appeared to have done so directly from animals.

Image courtesy of Vmenkov / Wikimedia Commons After public outcry against research into avian flu strains that can be transmitted among mammals, 40 of the top scientists working on the influenza strains signed a voluntary moratorium on research last January.

But without an effective drug to combat avian infections, more flu - infected birds will come into contact with people, adding to the risk of a mutation that will allow a human - to - human transmission of the flu.

PowderMed, based in Oxford, is developing a DNA - based vaccine that works by spraying gold particles coated with avian flu genes directly into human skin with high - pressure helium.

The more humans that an avian virus infects, Stöhr says, the greater the risk that it will morph into a flu pandemic.

Avian flu has a very low virulence, but the danger is that it could combine with a highly virulent human flu virus or mutate into a virus with a higher R number.

It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted.

We knew it was going to be avian flu or swine flu that made the jump into humans and we've always been concerned about flu viruses that infect swine, birds, and humans — there are 30 or so in total.